Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:53:14PM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote:
I've seen this message durning one reboot (in order to test oss modules
load): "/etc/modprobe.conf exists but does not include /etc/modprobe.d/!"

I see that my /etc/modprobe.conf is empty (no idea about the reason) I've
added include /etc/modprobe.d and now the system loads oss modules on boot:

$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
include /etc/modprobe.d

I did this on my sarge system (which also didn't have a /dev/dsp) and
one appeared. I could cat from it, and cat /dev/urandom to it and get
noise. There are probably better things to cat to it.

Unfortunately, after I did this, none of my audio programs worked.
Couldn't get sound out of kaffeine, xmms, konqueror....

Is this a matter of /dev/dsp disabling alsa or something?

When I took the line out of /etc/modprobe.conf, making it empty again,
and rebooted (just in case), /dev/dsp vanished, and sould still didn't
come back. I had a mute system. It took powering it down to restore
normal sound, without /dev/dsp. This is probably a bug somewhere, that
the sound card isn't being initialised properly.

Can anyone tell me how to get audio input without disbling the rest of
the sound system? That's what I thought I needed /dev/dsp for. I need
to rip cassette tapes of church services to post on the church web site.

-- hendrik


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